Taking a year off between high school and college isn’t unheard of. But doing it between the first and second year of college probably isn’t as common, and not for the reason that Kelsey Waidelich did.
Waidelich, now a sophomore at Bluffton University, left school last academic year for a six-month service trip to Guatemala.
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women’s soccer team ended the home portion of their season with a tough 1-0 loss to the Mount St. Joseph University Lions on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014. The loss dropped Bluffton to 4-12-1 overall and 1-5-1 in HCAC play, while the Lions improved to 6-11 and 3-5 in the Heartland Conference.
Dr. Jo Ellyn Peterson, an associate professor of education at Bluffton University, will discuss her 2013-14 sabbatical in Guatemala during a campus colloquium on Friday, Oct. 31.
The presentation, titled “Sabbatical in Guatemala: Developing Early Intervention Services in the Developing World,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Stutzman Lecture Hall in Bluffton’s Centennial Hall. It is free and open to the public.
Bluffton University’s production of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Skin of Our Teeth” opens this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in College Hall’s Ramseyer Auditorium.
In this scene, family maid Sabina, played by Brianna Lugibihl (right), a junior from Gomer, Ohio, asks her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Antrobus (Joe Wilson, a senior from Covington, Ohio, and Rebecca Juliana, a junior from Mechanicsburg, Pa.), for money to go to the movies.
The show will also be staged at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and at 2:30 p.m. Sunday.
he Bluffton University Residence Hall Association will host “trunk or treat” in the Sommer Center parking lot from 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, corresponding with trick or treat in the Bluffton community.
Campus organizations will decorate car trunks and pass out candy to visiting youngsters during the event.
